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The Los Angeles City Clerk’s office on Monday certified the petitions for five candidates in the Sept. 22 special election to fill out the City Council term of Controller Wendy Greuel.
Petitions for eight other candidates are pending,
Those whose petitions qualifed include Assemblyman Paul Krekorian, businesswoman Christine Essel, Candy Factor owner Frank Sheftel, county commissioner Jozef “Joe” Thomas Essavi and teacher Louis Pugliese.

The Los Angeles Times is reporting today that District Attorney Steve Cooley is investigating who launched a series of robocalls against him in last year’s election.
Besides the question of a prosecutor using his own office to investigate something like this, one wonders if Cooley is looking to find the person to thank him. He ended up winning an historic third term in a landslide.

In hindsight, considering the wild success of the Los Angeles Olympics, it might seem odd that anyone did not want to be part of the games that opened 25 years ago this week. Kevin Modesti in the Daily News.

The Soviet Bloc had its reasons, of course.

Less famously, so did the San Fernando Valley.

As a result of a fight that had classic Valley themes but far-reaching implications, this became the biggest Southern California community to miss out on hosting Olympic sports events – though that doesn’t keep it from sharing in the games’ financial legacy.

The fourth floor of City Hall has been full of bubble wrap, boxes and dust from old files these days.
It all began on July 1 when Councilman Jack Weiss left City Hall and new City Controller Wendy Greuel moved down to her new offices.
Council President Eric Garcetti quickly claimed Greuel’s office, which has the same amount of space, but is divided up into more offices — with windows — than Garcetti had.
That prompted Councilman Richard Alarcon to claim Garcetti’s office. New Councilman Paul Koretz was left with the space vacated by Weiss.
All of which means that whoever wins the Council District 2 election, will inherit the Alarcon space.
When the fourth floor council offices were created as part of the City Hall modernization, all of the offices have about the same amount of space, but there are preferences based on windows and proximity to the City Hall elevators.